It says something about the broad reach of Narciso Rodriguez that the audience at his show at Lincoln Center on Tuesday included both modernist designer Yeohlee Teng and the musician Courtney Love. Both of their reputations go before them, but it was Ms. Love who jounced her foot and chattered throughout parts of the show.

Better to have watched, Ms. Love. The show only lasts 15 minutes.

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Mr. Rodriguez gained fame when he designed Carolyn Bessette Kennedy’s bias-cut wedding gown, which set new standards for avant-bridal. But he has sometimes seemed less wedded to these minimalist beginnings in recent years.

The transparent looks this season set a new tone for minimal with just a touch of jazz. Many looked as though rose petals had scattered themselves lightly across a burnt orange background, or blew across black sheer silks whose white lining served as backlighting for the petals.

The silhouette for Mr. Rodriguez’s ladies is long and slim and easy, as in the charcoal colored linen dress that opened the show. It was cut on the bias, giving it drape, and offered a surprise in the form of a plunge in the back, held together with a swath of the palest pink silk.

It was a memorable and graceful showing, and comes toward the end of what is proving to be a long and busy fashion “week.”